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Twitter ye not Sylvia :-D


If you look at the Social Media Blog on here, it tells you the thinking behind using FB and Twitter. You can add your comments there too.


I have to admit (as I have before), that I am very into FB as well as GR but I am not interested in Twittering.........well not in that sense anyway. I can 'witter' for England though :-D


I've also just discovered that the Media section is now under the Community tab. It used to be on the front page - the bit where you can share your videos, pictures and success stories.


Trouble is, there may not be any success stories to share if you clever researchers aren't around to help folk :-(


Hope GR get their act together soon.......... :-S

TWITTER ??????????????????????


Thou jokest, dost thou not?



I will NOT go on Twitter .................



But I will be leaving GR if this kind of thing continues



Far too much time is being spent on so-called Social Media ...... time that should be spent dealing with the problems on THIS site and with the discontented current existing membership



It is becoming more and more obvious that the existing paying members count for nothing in the eyes of GR



well, I suppose they think they can replace us with new paying members attracted by postings on Twitter and FB ....... so they don't care if we walk.



That, of course, is after they have crowed about the excellent help that can be provided by members assisting on Community Boards.

In other words, they're using US at the same time as they trying to get rid of us ........................



and succeeding very well in that last endeavour


The squeaky wheel gets discarded



although there is such a thing here as whistle blower protection


and I'm beginning to see myself almost as a whistle blower .....

As genes reunited staff seem to prefer twitting and facebook, will message boards be kept in existence for paying members?

So are we supposed to use Twitter now to find out what is happening on this site

Goes from bad to bl**dy ridiculous

GR Team seem to spend too much time on other sites rather than on this one

and the reply they did make on this site is far from satisfactory!



Not to mention the officiousness in removing all postings on the topic on the GR wall on FB ......................... because they were repetitive!

No respect shown to members once again

Yes Joy, there does seem to be utter disregard for Genes Reunited members.

For genes reunited staff to respond on its page in facebook concerning the appalling behaviour of its abuse support team shows to me an utter disregard for the members of genes reunited who, to my mind, have been abused verbally by the abuse support team.
:-| :-| :-|

Why are the GR team still posting first on FB ?

Come on GR get your A*** into gear !!!!

:-0 :-| :-S :-P

Yes, first on FB, then about an hour later in genes reunited. :-(

Well at least it is on this site

But looks like it was posted first on FB

:-P

"Today we want to see some of those old family Christmas photos you have hidden away. Send your photos to [email protected] by the end of today with the subject line ‘Tuesday’ for the chance to win a pair of ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ live tickets for next year’s show in London. We also have some great family tree charts plus a book of your choice from the journals of a lifetime range at www.youtome.com for 5 lucky runners up. Winners will be announced by 7th January. Good luck! http://ow.ly/83COc "
http://www.facebook.com/genesreunited?sk=wall
· 30 minutes ago via HootSuite

ah yes ...... apparently posted on FB "3 hours ago"


so that be about the same time ????




sylvia

This was on the Announcements Board on here when I looked just now.

Haven't yet been over to FB to see if they posted over there, or, if so, when.

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Genes 8 Dec 2011 15:38

Hi everyone, as you know there have been ongoing performance issues for several months now. Our most experienced Genes developer, Toby, has been working on this for the last week. He has made some improvements so that changes which are normally made via our live database are now actioned in the background. This means that the live database isn't drawn on so much, which is why performance has been affected. This is a work in progress and Toby will continue to make changes over the coming week. We'd like to thank you for alerting us to the problems you've experienced. We are really sorry it has taken so long to resolve. However, you should start to see an improvement. Please bear with us as these changes will be gradual, but we're confident that you will find the site is working much better than it has been.

Post deleted (it mentioned another company).

Well at least the latest notification of service interruption is on Announcements and Facebook.

I neither wish to Tweet nor Re-tweet thanks.


I have friends in their 70's who are avid 'Tweeters' and so are my children, but it's never really appealed to me for some reason.


We have to admit though, that it is a normal part of life for many people of all ages, so I guess GR are just going with the flow.




:-D :-D :-D

I was just as lost as chrissie when first reading that message


and needless to say, I will not be joining Twitter

now I guess I am supposed to know what 'RT' means ... oh, reading on, I suppose it means 'retweet' whatever that is ... and sign up for twitter ... no thanks ...

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